A rare £300,000 collection of top Bordeaux wines stolen by professional thieves from a Swedish restaurant is "undrinkable," say the owners.

Ulriksdals Wärdshus, the restaurant whose collection of 600 bottles of First Growth Bordeaux was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the most complete, was raided on the night of July 22-23 July, reports Decanter.com. News of the heist was not made public until this month.

The collection consisted of one bottle from each of the five First Growths (Chateaux Lafite, Latour, Haut-Brion, Margaux and Mouton-Rothschild) and the top Sauternes Chateau d'Yquem for every vintage from 1900 to 2000.

Restaurant Manager Lars Fagerlund said the collection is valued at around £290,000. The most expensive bottle taken was a 1945 Lafite Rothschild, worth nearly £4,000. Lilian Finell, the restaurant's administrator, confirmed that the collection was insured, but she said its real value lay in its comprehensiveness. "The wine was not for sale, it was more of a museum attraction. Most of it is undrinkable," she said.

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